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process for years, never allowing one speck of impurity to stain him mentally or
physically, before he becomes a fully initiated Adept.
It may seem strange, almost incomprehensible, that the chief success of Gupta
Vidyâ, or Occult Knowledge, should depend upon flashes (Page 506) of clairvoyance,
and that the latter should depend in man on two such insignificant excrescences in
his cranial cavity, “two horny warts covered with grey sand (acervulus cerebri),” as
expressed by Bichat in his Anatomic Descriptive; yet so it is. But this sand is not to
be despised; nay, in truth, it is only this landmark of the internal, independent activity
of the Conarium that prevents Physiologists from classifying it with absolutely
useless atrophied organs, the relics of a previous and now utterly changed anatomy
of man during some period of his unknown evolution. This “sand” is very mysterious
and baffles the inquiry of every Materialist. In the cavity on the anterior surface of this
gland, in young persons, and in its substance, in people of advanced years, is found
A yellowish substance, semi-transparent, brilliant and hard, the
diameter of which does not exceed half a line. [Sœmmerring, De
Acervulo Cerebri, vol. ii. p.322.]
Such is the acervulus cerebri.
This brilliant “sand” is the concretion of the gland itself, so say the Physiologists.
Perhaps not, we answer. The Pineal Gland is that which the Eastern Occultist calls
Devâksha, the “Divine Eye.” To this day, it is the chief organ of spirituality in the
human brain, the seat of genius, the magical Sesame uttered by the purified will of
the Mystic, which opens all the avenues of truth for him who knows how to use it.
The Esoteric Science teaches that Manas, the Mind Ego, does not accomplish its full
union with the child before he is six or seven years of age , before which period,
even according to the canon of the Church and Law, no child is deemed responsible.
[In the Greek Eastern Church no child is allowed to go to confession before the age
of seven after which he is considered to have reached the age of reason.] Manas
becomes a prisoner, one with the body, only at that age. Now a strange thing was
observed in several thousand cases by the famous German anatomist, Wengel. With
a few extremely rare exceptions, this “sand,” or golden-coloured concretion, is found
only in subjects after the completion of their seventh year. In the case of fools these
calculi are very few indeed; in congenital idiots they are completely absent.
Morgagni, [De Caus. Ep ., vol.xii.] Grading, [Advers. Med., ii.322.] and Gum [De
Lapillis Glandulæ Pinealis in Quinque. Ment. Alien. 1753.] were wise men in their
generation, and are wise men today, since the are the only Physiologists, so far who
connect the calculi with mind.
The Master Chakras (Page 507) For, sum up the facts, that they are absent in young
children, in very old people, and in idiots, and the unavoidable conclusion will be that
they are connected with mind.
Now since every mineral, vegetable and other atom is only a concretion of
crystallized Spirit, or Ãkâsha, the Universal Soul, why, asks Occultism, should the
fact that these concretions of the Pineal Gland, are, upon analysis, found to be
composed of animal matter, phosphate of lime and carbonate, serve as an objection
to the statement that they are the result of the work of mental electricity upon
surrounding matter
Our seven Chakras are all situated in the head, and it is these Master Chakras which
govern and rule the seven (for there are seven) principal plexuses in the body,
besides the forty-two minor ones to which Physiology refuses that name. The fact
that no microscope can detect such centres on the objective plane goes for nothing;
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